Yesterday was a big holiday, so a lot of things were closed. I was in a city called Parnu, which is a nice little beach/tourist town. Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t quite so beachy, so I just spent a lot of time walking around to different closed museums and trying to avoid the rain.

I did go to the best Tex-Mex restaurant in all of Parnu and ordered a burrito.  What they served me was sorta kinda like a burrito, thought the salsa was sweet like ketchup, and the beans almost, but not quite, were lima.  A little odd.  But the tortilla was convincing, so that’s something.  That meal actually prompted me to get a pizza for dinner, just because I wanted to keep up the foreign-theme.  Today in Tartu (I arrived a couple hours ago), I went to another Mexican restaurant to compare.  Basically, just like at home, all I ever want to eat is Mexican food or the closest approximation thereof.

Estonians, kinda like Texans, are quite proud of their flag.  Yesterday was a national holiday, so it’s expected that the flag would be a bit more visible than other times, but seemingly every building had a flag on it.  I was walking through one residential area and took a photo of each of the seven or so flags visible from where I was standing.

I’ve mentioned this before, but there are a lot of V40s!  I stopped mentioning them, because I figured nobody else cared, but then I realized that if I care, then that’s enough.  So I took a picture of , and then not five seconds later yet another drove by.  And we drove by one on the highway AND I saw one in downtown Tartu this afternoon.  People know their cars.

Also: kite surfers.

Anyhow, I’m in Tartu now, so I’m going to see what there is to see around here.  The hostel I’m staying at seems nice- the first was a bit too hippie, and the last two were rather boring and asocial, but this one is promising.  I understand that holiday-wise, last night was the night everyone goes out and stays up all night partying, and today is the relaxed, hungover day.  That’s a shame, because I’m finally feeling like myself as of this morning, and I wouldn’t have minded had tonight been the all night party.

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